hugin the new year

[Keith Antoine]

Net Llama! wrote:
> As I alluded to earlier in the week, I spent Christmas at the Grand 
> Canyon (in northwestern Arizona).  I also drove alot around northwestern 
> Arizona soaking up some amazing scenery in and around the grand canyon 
> area.
> 
> Here are all the pictures that I took:
> http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/pix

lonni,

If I may make a few comment/tips on your photos, which look great but 
could be made just that much better. Practically all photographers over 
expose the highlights as this is a common factor with digital cameras.
In Oz we have a far greater percentage of losses this way due to the 
veryt harsh lighting conditions, so I suggest that you underexpose each 
landscape shot by 1/4 to 1/2 a stop which will enhance the sky. Do not 
worry about the shadows as these will take care of themselves and you 
can bring them up in GIMP. The main suggestion with the panoramas is 
that you MUST have identical exposures, so put them into GIMP first and 
make them all identical in shadow and hightlight detail first, then put 
tem into panorama stitching. Some panorama programs have 'feathering' so 
as the joined edges are not so prominent.

This in no way is a criticism of your photos. One other thing I use to 
enhance the sky is to use a polaroising filter which darkens down the 
blue of the sky and whitens the clouds.

Other than that, the very best for the new year: how many years has it 
been we have exchanged greetings on this list, amongst other things :) 
10 ? 12 years?

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